appleinsider.com — Apple Inc.'s share of the U.S. personal computer market for the third calendar quarter of 2007 was 8.1 percent, up from 6.2 percent during the same period one year ago, according to results released from Gartner just minutes ago.
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cthellisOct 18, 2007
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linuxgaloreOct 18, 2007
Two big issues Apple has is the lack of a game engine ie no Direct X and the lack of enterprise solutions such as .NET. Running Parallels is a nice idea but it is just ignoring the 400lb gorilla still sitting in the room.
dolbyOct 18, 2007
Add me to the growing user base...10.5 looks (insert number here) times better the vista.
theungodOct 18, 2007
College kids have to stay trendy I guess
kellyOct 18, 2007
Good point except that Mac users buy Macs simply because they are a better product. The fact that you can also gain a rebel image by being different is just gravy on top and not a prerequisite for the platform's success.
datdamonfooOct 18, 2007
Hey, that looks exactly like the first floor of East Hall, at the University of Michigan. Didn't expect to see that there. Anyway, that's obviously a meeting for Mac users. I was a graduate student instructor in that room for a class last year and there were definitely more PC laptop users (including myself) than Mac laptop users.
j1w2d34Mar 13, 2008
clever but dugg down
johnnysoftwareApr 29, 2009
Yep, "restructuring" write-offs for laying off about twenty-five thousand HP workers FTW (for the win).<a class="user" href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/151102/.html?tk=rss_news">http://www.pcworld.com/article/151102/.html?tk=rss ...</a><a class="user" href="http://www.infoworld.com/t/business/hp-announces-24600-layoffs-in-wake-eds-acquisition-819">http://www.infoworld.com/t/business/hp-announces-2 ...</a>Microsoft announced it is laying off five thousand Microsoft workers. Surprised their accountants could not make it look like their profits went up too.Seriously, if you are laying off 24,600 people then you cannot really be doing all that well.HP market share went up in a large part because Dell has been having a bad time selling computers lately. So bad that they announced months ago they wanted to sell the factory where they make their computers.<a class="user" href="http://www.techspot.com/news/31519-Dell-plans-worldwide-factory-selloff-to-cut-costs.html">http://www.techspot.com/news/31519-Dell-plans-worl ...</a>Reason DELL is looking to dump their own factories, "sell their sword" so to speak - is because DELL has been having a bad year financially. (AAPL is down a fraction but DELL is down 2.5x).<a class="user" href="http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=DELL#chart2:symbol=dell;range=1y;indicator=volume;charttype=line;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=on;source=undefined">http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=DELL#chart2:sym ...</a>So, yeah, if the guy sitting next to you has a heart attack and dies halfway through the meal and you are both eating the same thing, then percentage of that food that gets eaten by you as opposed to him goes up noticeably.Translation: HP is out-eating a dead man.I will believe HP is doing really well when they buy up Dell's factories and announce they are canceling their plants to get go of tens of thousands of their workers.HP has dropped product areas it used to be really strong in and tried to focus on making PC products. The Windows only PC-clone market has had paper-thin margins for competitors for years due to the fixed cost of the Windows-licensing fee paid to Microsoft and the fact that essentially - DELL, Compaq, Gateway, and HP were all selling the same product.So, now we do not even hear of Gateway anymore, HP and Compaq collapsed into each other, and DELL is looking to dump the factories where it makes its computers.No wonder COMP-USA retail chain went under - those are the brands COMP-USA stores were selling.
johnnysoftwareApr 29, 2009
I do not really care what color my computer is. I care some that it looks nice but crappy style/design/features but "oh, god it's my favorite shade of blue" - I don't think so.These days, most of a good computer is virtually all LCD (display) anyways. The other stuff has been either trimmed away or is sitting under the desk where my main concern is - since I can't see it while I am working, that I am not going to kick it over accidentally.